Poverty is defined as the quality or state of being poor or in need; want or scarcity of means of existence, indigence, need. From the definition above, poverty deals with the scarcity of needs that is necessary for existence. Need means a requirement for something. So I am right when I say that, poverty means a scarcity of the requirement for existence. But we all know that the requirements for existence are a summation of many factors. Though, poverty in our present society is always synonymous with financial poverty. Poverty only means being financially broke. Poverty covers a wide range of areas, some of those areas even worse than our finances. When someone is spiritual poor, it is a big problem for whoever is in that position. No doubt spiritual poverty is worse than financial poverty –because the spiritual life is one of the most fundamental elements of existence. I would like to share a story; I was watching a movie recently and in that movie there was a mafia, he and his boys were in the battle field fighting another gang. Then he said something to his boys; he said “it is better to die a rich man than to die a poor man” and I said to myself that it is obvious the man does not know the definition of poverty, because if he did; he would know that he is very poor. Let me tell you how. He is suffering from poor rest, which makes him a poor man rest wise. He is also suffering from emotional poverty, because he hardly has time for his emotional life, all he can do is to always temporarily satisfy his emotional needs by using various vices like prostitutes, increasing his ego –by indiscriminate killing of innocent people. For instance if he kills someone that did not obey his instructions, he begins to feel inside of him that he is the boss –but everybody knows he is boss; yes, people know even he himself knows he is the boss. But he is afraid of losing his position, and so to fight this fear he does something big something convincing, something that confirms him a boss –this means that he lacks confidence and so he is poor in confidence. For more visit www.emmyjoach.blogspot.com
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